WHY YOU WANT TO DECLUTTER

I know that quite a few times we tend to ask:"why I should I do this?" Well here is why. You remember one of my favorite clutter spots? That space of floor between my bed and the window? It attracks clutter like a pile of s*** attracts flies. It usually starts with a ppiece of clothing thatI took off right before going to bed. Then you never now, a quick emeergency clean up somewhere else a baskedt of stuff to be there "just for the afternoon" and before you know it. Voila. Mt Clutter. I'Ve watched it grow over thelast few days, maybe more like 2 weeks and foudn excuses every day why it can wait one more day. I finally decluttered it. okay. Shifted some, but cleared the whole areay, got rid of quite a bit, dusted vacuumed and was quite proud of myself. Wouldn't you know it 36 hours later with Ella sleeping in my bed, THIS happenend.

5:30 am she needed to go to the bath room. Swings her feet out of MY bed (poor me ran off to the couch in one of the kid's rooms. IT is quite comfy I must admit) somehow, even thought the sunis up already and she should be able to see, swings right into my tall reading lamp. Of course the reading lamp falls over. James's is mostly metal, mine has a nice milky glass lamp shade. OR should I say had? Well,it falls, hits the marble window sill and explodes into 1 million little fragments. I think I was standing upright onthe couch from that crash. Sank back decided I am too tored and wanteed to sleep. Fortunately my subcvoncious managed to get through to my concious brain and told it that the soudn came from my room, that it was GLASS, that there ar kids sleepingin there and that I had to ACT NOW! Miss Sleepy Head just stared at me. Glass on the floor, the window sill, the bed. EVERYWHERE! VEry fun to clean that up at 5:30 am, but if this had happend just 2 days early I would have had glass shards all over clothes and 2 baskets full of hoard with the promise of cutting my fingers any time I touched any of that. 

So keep in mind, things will happen. You'll break something. Spill something. And curseyourself for getting it all over your hoard. I think it took less than 5 min to clean it all up. And admist feeling sorry for losing that lamp and for myself for not being in bed anymore I was just happy the area was cleared and things were simple. 

Do ask me next week if I got rid of the lamp...

KILLER HEAT WAVE

The heat is REALLY getting to me. If at 10 pm you are sitting on your couch, watching TV and you have beads of sweat on your forehead it is too hot. I gave up on decluttering and deep cleaning once more for the rest of the heat wave. Just feeding the kids and keeping on top of every day stuff feels like enough of a challenge. 

I am getting rid of the occasional odd item, so not all is lost. I must admit I struggle with the situation. With feeling of failure and of not doing enough. But hey. Something I need to learn to deal with. The next few days should be a  little cooler. MAybe I will be able to get a few things done. 

PERMISSION TO RELAX

A heat wave hit us and I gave myself permission to relax yesterday. We filled up the kiddie pool and I read a book in the backyard. With the deck only half finished accessing the backyard is not as easy as it used to be, but we managed. Unfortunately the heat will stay for a while and I need to find a way to deal with it. One way to deal with it wouldd be to get up early and work during the cooler morning hours, but that has NOT happenend lately. The other way is to just find things to do in the basement. It is so much cooler down there. I can hear the guest room calling my name.